Commissioning Engineer - Mission Systems in Dunfermline

Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Help Shape the Future of Mission Systems Engineering

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Commissioning Engineer at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife. As part of our Marine business, you’ll contribute to projects that support national defence, advanced engineering, and the security of global infrastructure—making your work meaningful, impactful, and part of something bigger.

The role

As a Commissioning Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring that mission systems across new ship design, build programmes, refits, and export variants are fully tested, validated, and ready to perform. This is an exciting chance to work at the heart of defence engineering—where innovation, problem‑solving, and precision come together to shape safe and secure maritime capability. You’ll grow your technical expertise, develop leadership capability, and build strong relationships with suppliers, customers, and internal specialists. This is a role where your skill and curiosity will directly influence major engineering outcomes and support the long‑term safety and performance of critical national assets.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Support mission systems OEMs, ensuring systems are prepared for installation inspection and service enablement.
• Coordinate commissioning and build activities to resolve conflicts and optimise project schedules.
• Monitor and record commissioning progress, test results, witness final testing and equipment acceptance.
• Ensure documentation meets Quality Assurance and configuration control standards.
• Coach and mentor junior commissioning engineers, guiding their development and reviewing work.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at Rosyth.

Essential experience of the Commissioning Engineer – Mission systems:

• Experience in maintaining and commissioning ship warfare, weapons, or communications systems.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational capability.
• Experience developing and maintaining test documentation and analysing results.
• Experience writing safety documentation (risk assessments, method statements, procedures).
• Ability to collaborate with subcontractors and ensure safe systems of work.

Qualifications for the Commissioning Engineer – Mission systems:

• HNC/HND in Electrical or Electronic Engineering (or equivalent).
• Membership of a recognised professional engineering institution.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held.

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day’s paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work‑life balance. We call that lifetime engineering. Join us and see how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.